We are looking for a high-caliber Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale, high-profile, and high-risk I&IT initiatives. This role is focused on the front-end development of vital events initiatives for Ontario citizens. You will be responsible for ensuring that complex application development projects meet stringent business requirements while remaining on time, within scope, and under budget. This is a critical leadership role requiring a blend of agile expertise, fiscal accountability, and superior stakeholder management.
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Pay Rate: $609.86- $644.49
Advantages
- High-Profile Impact: Lead projects that directly affect vital service delivery for millions of Ontarians.
- Senior Executive Exposure: Engage directly with Project Champions and steering committees at the executive level.
- Elite Bill Rate: Competitive compensation for top-tier project leadership expertise.
- Central Hub: Work in a primary location in Toronto with full onsite team integration.
Responsibilities
- Project Oversight: Manage the full project lifecycle—from concept and definition to implementation and close-out—ensuring compliance with OPS methodologies.
- Agile Leadership: Direct agile/scrum teams, managing project backlogs and utilizing collaboration tools like Jira, Trello, or Microsoft Project to track task completion.
- Financial Management: Develop and manage complex project budgets across multiple funding channels; perform rigorous forecasting, reconciliation, and actuals confirmation.
- Resource Management: Source, on-board, and lead multi-disciplinary teams (including unionized staff and consultants), clarifying roles and resolving interpersonal conflicts.
- Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify potential risk events, develop mitigation strategies, and present prioritized options to senior executives.
- Technical Integration: Coordinate solution development (design, coding, configuration), data migration, platform upgrades, and Oracle-related deployment activities.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Establish and participate in steering committees and stakeholder forums to manage expectations and overcome resistance to change.
Qualifications
- Project Management Mastery: 10+ years of hands-on experience managing large, complex enterprise application development projects (multi-year/multi-million dollar budgets).
- Agile Expertise: 7+ years of experience managing agile, iterative, or scrum-based projects.
- Vital Events Experience: 3+ years of experience specifically leading complex, public-facing vital events initiatives for the citizens of Ontario.
- Technical Breadth: 5+ years of experience managing technical tasks including solution design, testing, platform patching, and end-to-end electronic solution delivery.
- Documentation Skills: Proven ability to create business cases, Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), and Threat Risk Assessments (TRA).
- Tools: Expert proficiency in Microsoft Project, Visio, PowerPoint, and agile tracking tools (Jira/Kanban).
- Public Sector Knowledge: Familiarity with ITIL processes (incident, release, and problem management) and government gating/procurement procedures.
Summary
If you're interested in the Project Manager/Leader role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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We are looking for a high-caliber Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale, high-profile, and high-risk I&IT initiatives. This role is focused on the front-end development of vital events initiatives for Ontario citizens. You will be responsible for ensuring that complex application development projects meet stringent business requirements while remaining on time, within scope, and under budget. This is a critical leadership role requiring a blend of agile expertise, fiscal accountability, and superior stakeholder management.
Pay Rate: $609.86- $644.49
Advantages
- High-Profile Impact: Lead projects that directly affect vital service delivery for millions of Ontarians.
- Senior Executive Exposure: Engage directly with Project Champions and steering committees at the executive level.
- Elite Bill Rate: Competitive compensation for top-tier project leadership expertise.
- Central Hub: Work in a primary location in Toronto with full onsite team integration.
Responsibilities
- Project Oversight: Manage the full project lifecycle—from concept and definition to implementation and close-out—ensuring compliance with OPS methodologies.
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- Agile Leadership: Direct agile/scrum teams, managing project backlogs and utilizing collaboration tools like Jira, Trello, or Microsoft Project to track task completion.
- Financial Management: Develop and manage complex project budgets across multiple funding channels; perform rigorous forecasting, reconciliation, and actuals confirmation.
- Resource Management: Source, on-board, and lead multi-disciplinary teams (including unionized staff and consultants), clarifying roles and resolving interpersonal conflicts.
- Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify potential risk events, develop mitigation strategies, and present prioritized options to senior executives.
- Technical Integration: Coordinate solution development (design, coding, configuration), data migration, platform upgrades, and Oracle-related deployment activities.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Establish and participate in steering committees and stakeholder forums to manage expectations and overcome resistance to change.
Qualifications
- Project Management Mastery: 10+ years of hands-on experience managing large, complex enterprise application development projects (multi-year/multi-million dollar budgets).
- Agile Expertise: 7+ years of experience managing agile, iterative, or scrum-based projects.
- Vital Events Experience: 3+ years of experience specifically leading complex, public-facing vital events initiatives for the citizens of Ontario.
- Technical Breadth: 5+ years of experience managing technical tasks including solution design, testing, platform patching, and end-to-end electronic solution delivery.
- Documentation Skills: Proven ability to create business cases, Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), and Threat Risk Assessments (TRA).
- Tools: Expert proficiency in Microsoft Project, Visio, PowerPoint, and agile tracking tools (Jira/Kanban).
- Public Sector Knowledge: Familiarity with ITIL processes (incident, release, and problem management) and government gating/procurement procedures.
Summary
If you're interested in the Project Manager/Leader role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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